Re: pkg/45278: bootstrap fails in libfetch NetBSD -current (gcc4.5)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 21,  2:40pm, joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) 
wrote:
-- Subject: Re: pkg/45278: bootstrap fails in libfetch NetBSD -current (gcc4.

| The following reply was made to PR pkg/45278; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
| To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
| Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
|       kuehro%gmx.de@localhost
| Subject: Re: pkg/45278: bootstrap fails in libfetch NetBSD -current (gcc4.5)
| Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:38:00 +0200
| 
|  On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 08:30:05AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
|  >  > >  half of the network code. So let us try with -fno-strict-aliasing on 
|  >  > >  ftp.c then. Other suggestions besides turning to another compiler ? 
;-)
|  >  > 
|  >  > *sigh* What I am telling you is that this is not about strict aliasing.
|  >  
|  >  Ok, but our default compiler thinks so and fails on an important part
|  >  of pkgsrc infrastructure. But this works on NetBSD current i386:
|  
|  Did you read the quoted error message? It is the broken array boundary check,
|  not about aliasing rules.

Which is a verbatim copy of the ftp code... Yes, the compiler is clearly
broken, but the new code is easier to read anyway and does not require
the ugly UC() macro.

christos